As previously announced by the promotion, a pair of Season 9
welterweight tournament semifinals will highlight the Oct. 18 bill,
as Rick
Hawn battles Brent
Weedman, while War Machine
squares off with Ron Keslar.
The eventual winner of the 170-pound bracket receives $100,000 as
well as a title shot.

Bellator 104 takes place at U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, and also includes a middleweight clash between Kendall
Grove and Joe Vedepo
and a heavyweight bout pitting Eric
Prindle against Peter
Graham. The main card airs live on Spike, while preliminary
bouts stream immediately prior on Spike.com.

Grove has posted a 6-4 record since parting ways with the UFC in
2011. During that time, “Da Spyder” earned notable wins over the
likes of Joe Riggs,
Ikuhisa
Minowa and Derek
Brunson, among others. Most recently, he scored a first-round
technical knockout against Danny
Mitchell at GWC “The British Invasion: U.S. vs. U.K.” in June.
A cast member of Season 3 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” Grove went 7-6
in the Octagon, including victories over the likes of Ed Herman,
Alan
Belcher and Evan
Tanner.

Vedepo, meanwhile, is a two-time veteran of both Bellator and the
UFC. The American Top Team product went 2-2 in 2012, falling to
Louis
Taylor in his last outing at Bellator 84 in December.

Perhaps best known for a pair of foul-marred bouts against Thiago
Santos, Prindle seeks his first win under the Bellator banner
since he knocked at Ron Sparks in
40 seconds at Bellator 56 in October 2011. “The American Soldier”
picked up a win outside the promotion in June, stopping Vince Lucero
in 12 seconds at Imperio MMA on June 15.

A native of Sydney, Graham makes his Bellator debut riding a
seven-fight winning streak, with each of those victories coming via
knockout or technical knockout. His most noteworthy victory during
that time came over Aleksander
Emelianenko in December 2010.